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    Olympic planners are set to bid for stadium

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    HOK Sport and other members of the Edaw-led consortium which masterplanned the Olympic Park are also in the running for the greatest prize of all: the Olympic Stadium.

  • Back in business: Bromley Hall, which dates from the 1490s, will offer office space to small firms.
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    Spotcheck

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    This week — London

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    Sparrows save Kays Pavilion

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Nesting sparrows have halted the demolition of a threatened 19th-century cricket pavilion in Worcester.

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    Aah Bicester…

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Midlands practice BBLB Architects has revealed images of this completed residential development in the expanding Oxfordshire town of Bicester.

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    Liverpool waterfront scheme goes for planning

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan’s mixed-use scheme for the former “Fourth Grace” site in Liverpool has been submitted for planning.

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    PM in debate over Kent’s all-single-room hospital

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    The prime minister has been drawn into a debate over the future of one of the UK’s most innovative PFI hospitals.

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    Law and new order

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Howells and inter-disciplinary consultancy McBains Cooper have designed this police station to be built in Gravesham, Kent.

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    Study into Barking DLR route

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang has been appointed to prepare a feasibility study for an extension to the Docklands Light Railway between Gallions Reach and Dagenham Dock — which would allow the huge Barking Riverside housing development to go ahead.

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    LDA draws up Eastside vision

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    LDA Design has published a vision statement for Birmingham’s Eastside, a regeneration area set for an architectural renaissance.

  • CZWG’s design for the Bournemouth Pavilion Casino makes use of green-glazed brick similar to that used on the practice’s Westbourne Grove lavatories.
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    CZWG gambles on casino laws

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    CZWG Architects has unveiled its design for the Bournemouth Pavilion Casino, which was entered for planning permission earlier this month.

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    Tate Modern extension by Herzog and de Meuron - Ellis Woodman reviews

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Such is the singularity and extraordinary scale of Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed new work at Tate Modern that it seems woefully inadequate to describe it as an extension. If built, this 70m-high crag will dwarf the main body of the existing building and will surely usurp the Turbine Hall ...

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    Now that’s what I call Modern

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron and the Tate delivered a resounding vote of confidence in the power of iconic architecture this week, unveiling designs for a spectacular £165 million glass edifice set to extend Tate Modern.

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    Prasad wins RIBA president election

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Sunand Prasad will be the next president of the RIBA, taking up his post in September 2007.

  • Night view of the new development of Tate Modern from the South
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    Tate Modern extension by Herzog and de Meuron - images

    2006-07-25T00:00:00Z

    The Tate's trustees have unveiled Herzog & De Meuron's dramatic designs for the extension to Tate Modern.

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    Fire hits timber-frame industry

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Questions raised over eco-friendly material as Broadway Malyan apartment block burns for five hours

  • Foster & Partners’ enormous underground cavern houses the firm’s entire archive, even down to  its founder’s student portfolio and two muddy ground breaking shovels.
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    Archives become a goldmine

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    No longer just dusty old drawings, the value now attached to architects’ archives has turned them into international commodities. Will Hurst looks at the impact this could have on the UK’s public collections

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    Israeli bombs shatter Beirut renaissance

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Beirut’s architectural renaissance, featuring work by architects including Gustafson Porter and Zaha Hadid, was falling apart this week as the Israeli bombings continued.

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    Tate in a state as gallery seeks to soothe St Ives

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    One of architecture’s most celebrated clients, the Tate, faced embarrassment this week after admitting that Jamie Fobert Architects’ proposed extension to Tate St Ives might never be built.

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    Arb chair hits out at rebel five

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Reform group walk out of meeting

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    Mayor ready for rows with boroughs over new powers

    2006-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone has braced himself for “spectacular rows” with the London boroughs, and pledged to use his new planning powers to force them to accept development whether they like it or not.